Re: Compression and on-disk sorting

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:55:53PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
> 
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> 
> > Only if those spindles weren't all in a single RAID array and if we went
> > through the trouble of creating all the machinery so you could tell
> > PostgreSQL where all those spindles were mounted in the filesystem.
> 
> I think the way you do this is simply by documenting that the admin should
> create precisely one temp area per physical spindle (or raid array).

And you still need some way to tell PostgreSQL about all of that.
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